Railway appliance.



1!. J. HESS. RAILWAY APPLIANCE.

APPLICATlON FILED MARJIZ l.9-!-7- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

Patented Mar. 12,

t. J=. HESS. RAILWAY- APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED. MAR. 12. MHZ.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- Wit 140,90

- railway rail showing my improved railchair and clamp applied thereto;

vsigned.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT *orrion. v

JOHN JAMES Hess, on sroKANn, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR T0 'rHEr. & M. COMPANY,

' or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION or ILLINOIS.-

RAILWAY APPLIANCE.

raseeoo.

. Application filed March 12,

To all whom it may concern; Be it known that I, JOHN J. Hess, a c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Appliances; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it 'appertains to make and use the same.

1 This invention relates generally to rail Way appliances, but especially to certain new and useful improvements in combination rail-chairs and rail-clamps or anchors. The primary object of the invention is to provide a single structure whichwill serve as a pair of rail-chairs adapted to be disposed upon a. pair of adjacent ties, and clamping means for engagement w1th'the.- base of the rail. Heretofore, a great amount of material has been unnecessarily wasted 1 because of the fact that these necessary appliances have been made in separate and distinct constructions. The fact that they are now devised to be made in a unitary structure will greatly cheapen the cost. of laying a road, and at the same time Will overcome many of the faults and difliculties of the present type of road construction. Anotherobject of the invention is to pro-' duce a device of this character which will I be of comparatively simple, yet strong'and durable construction, and which will be efiicient and reliable in operation, and well adapted to the purpose for which it is de-i With these and other objects in-view, the invention resides in the details of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In "the accompanying drawings which constitute the preferred form of the inven tion:

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a Fig. 2 is atop plan view of the chair showing the rail clamps in place thereon;

- Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view through a rail and the chair and clamps showing the arrangement of the latter for clamping or anchoring the rail to the chair;

F 4 i a perspective view of the central Specification of Letters latent.

. Patented Mar. 112, 19-18. 1917. SerialNo. 154,285. I

or connecting portion of the chair-showing the lateral grooved extensions which receive the. clamping members;

Fig. 5. is a similar view of one of the clamping members; and v Fig. 6 is a bottom plan'view of the same. In specifically describing the structure of the invention shown in the drawings above briefly described, similar reference characters will be placed upon corresponding parts throughout all the views and reference will be herein made to the various'elements by their respective indices. To this end, the numerals 1 and 2, designate a pair of railchairs which may be of any suitable construction, but Which are preferably, as here shown, in the formof substantially flat rectangular plates. Formed upon the upper faces of the plates 1 and 2 near one of their sides are ridges .3 and 41respectively, the inner edges of said ridges forming shoulders, the purpose Of which will'be hereinafter described. The plates 1 and 2 -are provided with a plurality ofopenings 5, which are adapted to receive the-usual railroad tensions 7 for the neck 6, each of said extensions being provided with grooves -8 in their upper sides, said grooves being are P ranged parallel to each other but'being'arranged angularly with respect to the parallel edges of the neck 6; I I j The numerals 9 and 10 represent a pair-of Wedge blocks each having a ridge '11 on its lower side'and at its inner edge. The ridges 11 are adapted to be fitted in the grooves 8 of the extensions 7,'and it is to be here noted that the upwardly extending ridges of said extensions which cooperate with the edges of the neck 6 to form said grooves are disposed in a plane below the upper face of the neck-6 to allow the upper face of the wedgeblocks 9 and 10 to be disposed flush with saidupper face. of said nec I Formed at the outer edges of the blocks 9 and 10 are substantially hook-shaped rail base engaging members 12 a d 13 respec- 119 tively. The inner and outer edges of the blocks 9 and 10 are disposed in converging relation to provide for their efiective cooperation with the angularly disposed grooves 8 in the extensions 7 of the neck d. These hook-shaped members 12 and 13 are of any desired size and shape to properly receive the base of the rail, and may be braced or reinforced if necessary by a pair of ridges, webs or ribs 14, the latter being preferably disposed at the ends of the blocks.

In using a device constructed as above described, the rectangular plates 1 and 2 are disposed upon the upper faces of a pair of adjacent ties A. The rail B is then placed upon the plates 1 and 2, and the wedge blocks 9 and 10 are forced into place with respect to the extensions 7 of the neck 8 by sliding them longitudinally from opposite ends of said extensions. The shoulders formed by the ridges 3 and 4 in the chair plates are adapted to be disposed in contact with one of the edges of the base of the rail as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Ordinary railroad spikes C are now driven through the openings 5 in the plates 1 and 2 into the ties A. The hooked or headed ends of said spikes will engage the upper face of the base of the rail in the usual manner.

By this device the rail is firmly clamped in place and cannot creep either longitudinally or inwardly or outwardly, The ties, or in fact the adjacent ties which are connected by the same integral structure, cannot move with respect to each other. A very eficient and rigid connection between" the rails and ties is thus formed.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying draw-v ings, the construction, use and operation of the device will be readily understood without a more extended explanation.

As various changes in form, proportion, and in the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the instance spirit of this invention, I do not wish to be limited to the construction herein shown and described, other than as claimed.

1 claim 1. A device or" the class described co1nprising a pair of rail chairs adapted to rest upon and be secured to a pair of adjacent ties and be disposed beneath the base of a rail, a comparatively narrow neck integrally uniting said'chairs together, and a wedge block connected with the intermediate portion of said neck and having cooperating clamping means adapted to receive the base of a rail.

2. A device of the class described com prising a pair of rail chairs adapted to rest upon and be secured to a pair of adjacent ties and be disposed beneath the base of the rail,a comparatively narrow neck integrally uniting said chairs together, .a pair of wedge blocks connected to the intermediate portion of said neck and adapted to receive the base of the rail.

3.. A device of theclass described comprising a pair of rail chairs adapted to rest upon and be secured to a pair of adjacent ties and he disposed beneath the base of a rail, a comparatively narrow neck integrally uniting said chairs together, a pair of lateral extensions formed upon the intermediate portion of said neck and having grooves in their upper sides, said grooves being disposed angularly with respect to the side edges of said neck, and a pair of wedge blocks adapted to receive the base of a rail, and having ridges on their lower sides fitting into said grooves, said ridges heing arranged in converging relation to the outer sides of said blocks.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set nay hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN JAMES HESS. Witnesses:

L. Banner,

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